France September 2016 (Updated)

A future Best Seller?

 Kia Optima PHEV Lands with a Bang

The French EV market had 3.026 registrations last month, a 9% improvement YoY, a positive result, with the EV Share slightly up to 1.68%, a significant departure from the 1.41% of 2015.

Looking at the monthly models ranking, the big surprise was the thunderous arrival of the Kia Optima PHEV, with 152 units, shooting immediately to Third in September, scoring a new record for a landing month, while also being the second best performance for a plug-in hybrid this year.

Elsewhere, besides the usual Zoe, Leaf and Kangoo ZE, the Tesla Model S also joined the Top 5, scoring its best performance (132 deliveries) since last March. 

Pl	Model	Sales
1	Renault Zoe	867
2	Nissan Leaf	283
3	Kia Optima PHEV	152
4	Renault Kangoo ZE	146
5	Tesla Model S	132

France is known for being a stable market, with little changes in the ranking, and September confirms this, one has to go down to #9, with the Tesla Model S rising two positions and surpassing the Volvo XC90 T8 to Ninth Place. 

The Citröen C-Zero also climbed two positions, to #11, thanks to 109 registrations, its best result in four years(!), while the VW Passat GTE jumped five places to #21, thanks to a record 128 units.

Looking at the brands ranking, Renault (Leader since 2011) continues to be the Master In Command, with 42% share (Down 1%), followed at a distance by Nissan (14%) and BMW (9%).

Pl	France	Sep.	2016	%	'15Pl
1	Renault Zoe	867	8.348	33	1
2	Nissan Leaf	283	3.108	12	3
3	Renault Kangoo ZE	146	1.809	7	2
4	BMW i3	111	981	4	8
5	Peugeot iOn	127	956	4	9
6	Volkswagen Golf GTE	97	843	3	4
7	Bolloré Blue Car	78	753	3	5
8	Kia Soul EV	96	725	3	13
9 10 11 12	Tesla Model S Volvo XC90 T8 Citröen C-Zero Audi A3 e-Tron	132 45 109 37	617 614 558 531	2 2 2 2	10 N/A 15 6
13	BMW X5 40e	41	493	2	20
14	Citröen e-Mehari	18	458	2	N/A
15	BMW 225xe Active Tourer	62	386	2	N/A
16	Volkswagen Passat GTE	128	359	1	19
17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35	Renault Twizy e) Nissan e-NV200/Evalia ** Goupil Porsche Cayenne PHEV Peugeot Partner EV  BMW 330e Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV Mercedes C350e Bolloré Blue Summer Citröen Berlingo EV Kia Optima PHEV  Audi Q7 e-Tron  Volkswagen e-Up! Volkswagen e-Golf Mitsubishi I-Miev Mercedes GLE500e Volvo V60 Plug-In BMW i8 Mercedes B250e Others	20 37 33 33 47 33 31 23 6 67 152 34 2 6 9 9 2 1 8 55	345 338 335 332 328 243 226 194 189 174 152 130 126 79 78 71 63 60 55 106	1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	11 16 14 12 21 N/A 7 27 N/A 23 N/A N/A 18 22 30 31 26 25 24
	TOTAL	3.026	25.263

** - 14 Pass + 23 LCV

Sources: Avere France


New Zoe ZE 40 Demand 

On the aftermath of the Paris Auto Show, where the 40 kWh Renault Zoe became the first Long-Range(ish) to hit the market (Take that, Bolt and Model 3!), with orders being taken since Day One of the Mondial, one wondered how well it was received by consumers, and how much was the demand.

Without Tesla-like announcements, someone contacted the French car maker and got this response: "The Zoe is the model in demand at the Renault Stand".

Meaning that it was the best selling model in the Renault line up at the Auto Show, ahead of the Clio, Captur or the recent Megane best sellers, and let's not forget that the electric model is a few years old...

Now, it's still too early to say the Zoe production will supplant that of the Clio at the Flins factory, but if Renault is bullish and pushes the Zoe sales properly, it can already prepare the Europe's 2017 Best Selling EV Award, together with the 2016 Title...

Original article (In French), English Translation.

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SECURITY FOR THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY: From End To End

Bill Boldt
Business Development Manager, Security
Blackberry 
wboldt@blackberry.com

Security is emerging as perhaps the most important factor in the evolution of the connected autonomous car. Due to high profile hacks on cars, it is hard to argue that without security you can have safety. Cars are the most software intensive systems in the universe with far more lines of code than even a state of the art jet fighter. 

With being such complex digital systems they have become prime targets for attack, and that is where cryptographic countermeasures come in. 

Connecting the dots:  in the emerging software-defined world,  safety increasingly comes from security, while security comes from cryptography. Robust cryptographic security implementation is how you increase trust, and in a car every system must be trusted, including inside the car, in the smart  infrastructure, in emerging applications-based ecosystems, and in the manufacturing supply
chain. 

When considering automotive security, many factors come into play. Some are noted here (and were noted in a prior blog, but are worth repeating):

•  Security assets (e.g.  crypto keys, serial numbers, etc.) must be installed into
  electronic devices such as Electronic Control Units (ECUs), domain/area controllers, and other processors at manufacturing time. This process is called "personalization"

• Those electronic devices must be distributed to and be installed into vehicles in globally located factories

• They must be warehoused worldwide for subsequent repairs, and be updateable at dealers and repair shops

• In addition, aftermarket suppliers must be able to sell and update secure devices, and
  OEMs must have the ability to authorize electronic devices or not (e.g. enforce warranty  policies) 

And, there are many more.
  
To maintain the maximum amount of flexibility, personalization (provisioning) and updating should be moved as close as possible to the very last minute. Each car maker will be faced with the same
situation and will have to design and manage secure device manufacturing systems, secure updating systems, and security certificate management systems that are global and long
term in nature.

The way in which these systems get deployed will have to be designed to the specific logistical and security needs of the manufacturer.

Fortunately, the tools to do that are available from Certicom; namely, the Managed PKI
System and Asset Management System. 


Asset Management System
Certicom’s Asset Management System (AMS) installs cryptographic keys into devices (such as ECUs, domain and area controllers, processors, memory,key storage ICs, etc.) to ensure they are secure from tampering, counterfeiting, cloning, and other bad things that happen to good systems.
 
Personalization using Certicom’s AMS solution automates the secure distribution and tracking of digital assets, especially when used in conjunction with the Managed PKI services. 

Certicom’s Managed PKI Certificate Services helps high volume manufacturers secure devices and securely enforce ecosystem requirements. Authentication is enforced via certificates, which is a method that provides the highest levels of security. 

Mangaged PKI System
 
Certicom’s managed PKI system was initially created for BlackBerry mobile devices, which speaks to high security and volume production scale capabilities. 

Managed PKI performs four essential functions:

1. ISSUE: Automatically issue certificates tvalidated devices 
2. MANAGE: Track all of the issued certificates 
3. RENEW: Automatically renew active devices 
4. REVOKE: Disable certificates of lost or decommissioned devices
   

Security Design Consulting
The overall automotive manufacturing blueprint must be designed with best practices in mind right from the start, and BlackBerry Professional Services can help with that.  BlackBerry’s cybersecurity consulting and tools help to:

• Identify the latest cybersecurity threats
• Develop risk appropriate mitigation strategies
• Implement and maintain IT security standards and techniques, and
• Defend against the risk of future attacks

BlackBerry is making the proprietary security skill sets that made BlackBerry mobile device the most secure in the world available to the open market. BlackBerry's Professional Security Services teams provide design, analysis, response, and testing ("DART") via a range of services, as noted in the table below, among others:

 
With security skills honed in the mobile industry, industry leading cryptographic  expertise, and decades of automotive software experience, you can see that Blackberry brings it all together.

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